The good news about childhood obesity

According to study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that analyzed data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics, today’s kids have plateaued at a level in which 16.3 percent of those 2 to 19 are obese and another 15.6 percent are overweight.

The study doesn’t offer an reasons for why there were no significant changes in children’s BMI between 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 or between 1999 and 2006.

But if the childhood obesity trend has really peaked, then perhaps we can look forward to a decline in this troubling health crisis.